What happens when your cereal looks like or Munch painting, or your funnel cake looks like a seahorse? It ends up here: “Welcome to the first exhibition of the Museum’s collection. We’ve selected a handful of defining works from the archives to supply a proper introduction to the Art of …

…who run the Museum of Online Museums. The MoOm was selected as one of Time Magazine’s Top 50 Coolest Web Sites for 2005, probably mostly because the Grocery List Collection is part of the MoOm’s Permanent Collection, of course!

Hello again, NYT readers! “The age of MoMA, the Museum of Modern Art, is over. The age of MoOM, the Museum of Online Museums, is upon us. In the 1960’s, deep in the age of MoMA, Andy Warhol painted a stack of plywood cubes to look like Brillo boxes. That …

About this project

This is the world's largest online collection of found grocery lists. In fact, we wrote the book on found grocery lists. Why? Other peoples' grocery lists are fascinating. Plus, the internet is a great place to do stupid interesting things. So far 3,500 funny, crazy, weird, sad and/or mundane discarded scraps of paper have been posted. But it's not all useless stuff -- we also link to useful and interesting articles about food, shopping, lists, collecting, and more, as well as provide a pretty awesome downloadable PDF grocery list for free.

Buy our book

Originally released as a hardcover in 2007, the book based on this site went out-of-print after our appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live. Happily, it's been re-released in paperback with a new cover and is available at a very reasonable cost (there's a Kindle version too). So please buy it!